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The goal of PhD programs has never been to have every student become a professor. Also, strong STEM PhD students generally don't need much help finding jobs after they graduate. Cl…

This is happening with many popular YouTube creators as well, pivoting from tech tutorials to AI. Kyle Cook made a video showing how engagement has cratered for non-AI stuff, makin…

I guess they updated the way it connects to the remote machine. Perhaps something about my setup wasn't one of their test cases?

I am stuck using an older VSCode. A few versions ago, it stopped connecting to my remote machine.

and 2tb -> 8tb storage is +$3k!

The most important part of math is advancing human understanding. A correct answer by itself is not as important as understanding why it is correct.

I'm constantly surprised how many people are critical of research to understand neural nets, immediately telling me they are black boxes and hopeless to understand. I believe it's …

> Was software made before 2000 better? At the time of release, yes. They had to ensure the software worked before printing CDs and floppies. Nowadays they release buggy versions t…

Everyone dislikes pedantically verifying references. However, if you cut corners here then will you also cut corners pedantically verifying research results? Beyond references, the…

Before LLMs, I've watched in horror as colleagues immediately copy-paste-ran Stack Overflow solutions in terminal, without even reading them. LLM agents are basically the same, exc…

Elon at some point threatened to have an LLM rewrite all of the training data to remove woke. I assume Grokipedia is his experiment at doing this (and perhaps hoping it will infect…

I highly doubt collaborators are thinking less of you for not having more publications! After all, if they are collaborators they've already decided to work with you. My understand…

Recently about half of the items sold to me as "New" have arrived used or counterfeit. The sellers have 5-star ratings, despite numerous reviews about receiving used or fake produc…

The hypothetical you state only matters once you have a game! The biggest risk by far is not AI assets -- it's finishing the game. So if AI increases your odds of finishing, go for…

A notepad "welcome experience"? How is notepad turning into bloatware?

This happens with every new tech. When websites first appeared, many businesses trusted kids to build their website. The key in applied work is to build a portfolio that shows off …

True, I accidentally posted the date of the comment (1) not the commit. The only thing strange seems to be he used a smiley in the referenced commit message which doesn't seem to b…

Have you tried emailing him? He likely also owns hopding.com, and both domains consistently seem to be at Squarespace. The last commit on his GitHub (Feb 2025) someone commented "G…

It's very possibly moreso a cultural issue. COVID caused continuing low attendance, there is currently an anti-education political trend, and AI advancements allow students to be l…

What is this then: https://web.archive.org/web/20260203163430/https://www.cia.g... It clearly states on the page that the Factbook was continuously updated, with "new data uploaded…

> Why would someone with GE expect to keep it? Peaceful protest is protected from retaliation by the First Amendment ...

> This is the actual challenge: the medical recommendation might be solid, but a public policy doesn’t work unless people follow it. ... presumably due to misinformation, members o…

So you're suggesting that in response to misinformation about provably beneficial safety standards, we should erode the standards. That encourages even more misinformation, and fur…

Huh? As I mentioned, it has always been a requirement for students to get vaccinated to attend school. My point still holds that if not for this requirement then we'd be below the …

How many deaths are acceptable to say we can "handle" an illness? Public health requires over 95% vaccination. There has never been a realistic path to that other than requiring st…